Supporters of the detained former governor of Kaduna State, Muktar Ramalan Yero on Wednesday besieged the Kaduna Prisons to demand for his immediate release from detention.

The Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna had earlier granted bail to the former governor and three others standing trial over alleged money laundering. They were however returned to the prison pending when their bail conditions would be met.

Supporters of the politicians, who had earlier thronged the court premises chanting different slogans in support of the former governor, blocked the Independence Way which leads to the prison in protest of their continued detention.

It took the intervention of armed Mobile Policemen who used hot water and teargas to disperse the protesters to restore normalcy to the area. The policemen also blocked the road while diverting motorists and this led to heavy traffic along  Kabala and Murtala Square areas of the city center.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer of the State Police Command, ASP Murkhtar Aliyu said the security agents intervened and dispersed the youths to avert a breach of security.

Yero , a former minister, Abubakar Gaya-Haruna, ex-Peoples Democratic Party chairman in the state and former secretary to the state government, Hamza Ishaq were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a four-count charge bordering on laundering over ₦700 million in 2015.

When the case came up on May 30, all the four defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges. The court thereafter remanded them in prison custody and fixed Wednesday, June 6 to consider their application for bail.

At the resumed sitting on Wednesday, counsel to the defendants, Yunus Ustaz (SAN) asked the court to grant his clients bail, saying they would not interfere in any way to thwart the trial.

The presiding Judge, Justice Mohammed Shua’ibu, after listening to the arguments of both sides granted the defendants bail in the sum of ₦1 million each with two reliable sureties each in like sum.

He said that the sureties should have landed property within the jurisdiction of the court. The judge also ordered that the defendants should surrender their international passports to the registrar of the court.

The case has been adjourned until September 26 for hearing.